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It doesn’t appear to work at all with 2.1. I’ve activated it, made sure everything is in the plugins folder in wp-content. I tried turning off all other plugins to see if there was a conflict there, but nothing I can do changes it. The custum fields used to show up beneath the main post textarea. Now they don’t show up anywhere.

Whenever I have a single quote, it gets escaped when I save the meta data. I have added stripslashes() to the template file to get rid of them, but if the post is edited and saved again, more backslashes are added. Any suggestions on getting rid of these backslashes? Thanks.

I would like to add my support to 3stripe’s request if that is alright. Showing custom fields by category seems like a really good way of extending this fantastic plugin. I can’t believe its not better publicised and added to ‘top 10’ lists… I’ve been looking for something like this for ages to utilise customfields. Thank you!

Hey, I’d also like to suggest support for multi-select lists and multi-checkbox lists. Not sure what that’d take, but those seem to be pretty big features of HTML lists and checkboxes that would be nice to have here.

Hi, Josh, and thank you for a great plugin. It has literally saved my possibility to add custom fields to post because the original wp gui for that was not working… Anyway I have a request for an essential functionality that I noticed your plugin lacks: I have been able to add GUIs to the “write post” page, but not to the “write PAGE” page. I’m using “page links to” plugin, so I also need custom fields added in pages but without your plugin I cannot do it… Anyway feel free to visit my page http://www.secretia.com anytime! Thanks again!

Thank you so much for the great plugin! I am wondering whether there is a way to change the config.ini file, so that the custom field can take values from a database (currently we have to manually input values for each custom field). For example, the custom field name is BookTitle, and I would like to create a drop down with populated values from a database. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I rewrote part of the rc-custom-field-gui.class.php, now the custom field could be a dropdown with data coming out of the database.

There is another thing I’ve noticed. It seems in the config.ini file, the value field could not be multi-line. This is odd since the manual of parse_ini_file says that “As of PHP 5.0.0 this function also handles new lines in values”. (This is also the reason I decided pulling the data directly out of the database for the dropdown list)

gotta problem on my blog with your great plugin. Under the input mask for a new entry I see the custom fields, but after being published the fields respectivly the content of them dont show up… I think its like this after I installed WP 2.1.2
Is this a known bug? What can I do to get the fields back ;). And yes, I do use the conf.ini without the “sample”.

if it would have special fields when editing a category (what is a great idea), it would be great, if i would have an option to Write post with that preselected category (and so the right custom fields) – such functionality would just add new items to Write, so you could make Book review category asociate it with custom fields, and in the Write menu would be Write new Book review. It should also work with posts and you should be also able to hide for that category the block you do not need. And then also add special role for each category, so only allowed people will be able to make a post in the category. And also special “manage” menu, so you could do Manage Book review and you will see the list on posts with Book review category, with defined columns (e.g. that defined custom fields) …

;)

I know i want a lot of things, but if this would exist, it would made this plugin the #1 for my wordpress instalation (#2 after akismet at some instalations) ;)

Looks great. But before I wreck by WP database: I ALREADY have custom fields with precise names for most of my posts. Must I avoid using the same custom field names for my subsequent posts? or will they share with fields in your interface? finally is there any way of importing existing custom field data into your framework?
Thanks and sorry for simple-minded questions
Martin

If you have existing custom field keys, you would add those keys to the config file. Next time you edit your post, your custom field value should appear in the interface of Custom Field GUI. This plugin just provides the interface–it pulls and saves data to the same place as if you used the native interface.

There is no automated way to import existing custom field keys to the config file. Remember, you just need to add the custom field KEYS; you’re not importing post-per-post.

By the way, you should grab the beta version linked somewhere above if you haven’t already. No one’s complaint about it yet.

I was wondering if there is a simple way to allow html (namely email addresses) in the conf.ini for a select list? I have a case where I would like to create a name and email link pair for a real estate office.

I am sure that I could hack the rc-custom-field-gui.class.php to not choke on the HTML or create a new loop to do a find and append to the array that the rc-custom-field-gui.class.php builds the select from.

I would really like to be able to do this without getting into the rc-custom-field-gui.class.php file.

How are you getting the values of the fields to display in the post? For example if I select miles walked, how will this display on the live site/post? Do I not have to make edits to my wordpress them to display the_meta ?

thanks joshua! the trick is to refreh the page after deleting the custom field entry vie WP’s custom field interface, and then saving the page. i simply deleted and then saved. in that case the field prevails…
hope your custom write panel comes along well, really looking forward to that. it’s gonna make things a lot easier!!!

hm, but if i use clutter free to hide the wp custom fields i wouldnt be able to uncheck an option, once it is checked. should be given thought also for the custom write panel plug in i think. people are quick with chosing an wrong option, as they are sure,that it can simply be undone with another click in the same field.

1. I need to make that a custom field is a one small icon.
2. The second thing which I need is filtering posts by the custom field. For example – custom field is an author (not the author of the post, but the author of design etc.). So when I click on this author it will show me all posts which have in this custom field the name of this author. This same function I need with the icons ^^
3. Custom field is link

Great plugin, thanks! Most of the posts on our website would need the functionality of this plugin, however, some posts e.g. “Events”, wouldn’t need to pull in the custom fields so is there a way to hide/delete/not use these fields so that even when left blank on the form, they don’t appear in the post? Or am I missing something (I’m not a PHP programmer so depend on plugins to help me out with WordPress!) Thanks for your help!